- Associated Supermarkets
Associated Supermarkets is a
retailers' cooperative ofgrocery store s based inNew York City , with locations inManhattan ,The Bronx ,Brooklyn ,Queens ,Long Island , andNew Jersey . The Associated name has been in existence for over 50 years.In 2001, Associated Supermarkets and another grocery chain,
Gristede's , stopped advertising in theNew York Daily News after the paper ran a series of articles critical of the grocery stores' lack of cleanliness. [cite news |first=Monte |last=Williams |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Grocers Pull Ads After Articles on Cleanliness|url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950CE7DA1138F936A35756C0A9679C8B63 |work=The New York Times |publisher= |date=May 5, 2001 |accessdate=2008-05-28 ] [cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Daily News: All Lost In the Supermarket |url=http://www.mediaweek.com/mw/google/article_brief/866076 |work=Mediaweek.com |publisher= |date=May 14, 2001 |accessdate=2008-05-28 ]In 1995, RBG Management Company, a member company of Associated Supermarkets, was accused of paying bribes to the Meatpackers' Union.cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Five Indicted in Extortion by Meatpackers' Union |url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE7DA113CF93BA15754C0A963958260 |work= |publisher= |date=July 28, 1995 |accessdate=2008-05-28
References
*cite news |first=Lisa |last=Fickenscher |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Supermarkets flee city's high costs. Stores flee city, focus expansion outside Big Apple; poor neighborhoods hit hardest|url=http://www.crainsnewyork.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080525/FREE/134888286/1008 |work=Crain's New York Business |publisher= |date= May 24. 2008 9:52PM|quote="The cost of operating supermarkets in New York City was impossible," says Eligio Peña, who closed the last of his six Associated supermarkets here in 2000 |accessdate=2008-05-28
External links
* [http://www.associatedsupermarkets.com Associated Supermarkets]
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